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But. . . we're friends?

[she thought that friends were supposed to tell each other everything]

Someone, maybe. Nobody I saw while on patrol. [she laughs] That doesn't mean that nobody did it.

It's up to you, but if you think they won't understand it might be better to not bring it up at all.

[For instance he's never going to bring up the 'forced to eat people' thing to any of his friends. Some things are better left unsaid.]

Maybe when the weather clears up people will do more stuff like that. Surfing. Hiking. Rock climbing. It'd be nice to have a little normalcy around here.

I don't want to get complacent, but ... Not being on edge constantly would be nice.

...maybe you're right. On UP worlds--most of them, anyway--we're raised to believe that every life is precious. Something like this. . . they wouldn't get it.

[a completely understandable thing to leave out of day to day conversation]

Maybe? I've never surfed before. The water near Metropolis wasn't the right kind for it. It always looked fun, though.

Are you on edge constantly?

I tend to be. It's in my nature, gotta be prepared for when the next terrible thing happens. But I'm trying to not be anymore, I'm gonna burn out. I know that. I can tell. It's happened before.

Maybe I should take up surfing.

[He snickers. He would be terrible at it if his past attempts at water skiing are any indication.]

I'm gonna help replant some of the trees. Now that the orchard is gone we've lost a lot of green, and some people were saying they could get seeds from somewhere and we could regrow it. It'll take years to bear fruit, but even just saplings would be better than stumps.

If there's anything I can do to help you, please let me know, okay?

I should too. It would be something fun!

[she looks 100% sincere and earnest]

So am I. It's terrible, what happened to the orchard and to the park. It makes this place seem even more dreary than it already is.

Thank you.

[He really means that, she's the most helpful person he's met... ever honestly. Even back home no one really cared about each other, everyone was preoccupied with their own lives. And post cult with their own survival.]

All for some boats that they may never use again. I haven't even heard if they found what they were looking for.

You're welcome.

[and she genuinely wants to help him. she likes him and he's been nothing but nice and helpful to her, so why shouldn't she return the favor?]

You'd think that they could at least be used for deep sea fishing. I wouldn't eat the fish, but I bet a lot of other people would. And I think they found what they were looking for? At least I saw something on the network about it.

Oh true. I didn't think about that. If I didn't get seasick I'd think about going fishing, I bet it's nice out on the ocean.

Yeah I saw some people fighting about what to do with it. I'm going to let them sort that out. I'll be more interested if it does what they say it does.

You get seasick? That's too bad. I bet it is nice out on the ocean, too. I usually don't bother with the boats, though, since I can fly.

So did I. I didn't know any of the people fighting, so I thought, well. That they wouldn't appreciate me butting in. I hope that it does do what they say it will do, but what if we can't actually use them because using them will drive whoever does insane?

To be fair, I'm not really sure. But I get queasy on long car rides and roller coasters and planes, so I'm assuming that a boat rocking on the waves won't do good things to my stomach.

Same, I don't think I've been here long enough to have an opinion. As for how they work, someone would probably volunteer, for the greater good. I could see that happening.

[ Pratt potentially might volunteer if given the chance. His brain is so screwed up sometimes he's not sure he could tell the difference. Well, most of the time, sometimes he has normal conversations like this one and he feels like the old, pre-cult Pratt.]

Oooh. Probably it wouldn't. How do you get between islands or are shorter trips okay?

I have opinions--plenty of them! I just didn't think anyone would listen to me. [she gets a concerned look on her face] Even with the risk of being driven mad? It's not like this place has 30th century medicines and treatments to help them.

The short trips have been fine, but I didn't try and go to other islands during the storm when it was real choppy or anything. I'm not about to tempt it.

Some people don't have anything to loose. If there's no one waiting for you back home, what difference does it make what happens to you here? Also some people are dead, or dying. I assume if the door works the way people say it will, they'll go back to being dead.

[she nods] Going on a boat during that would be foolish. I had to rescue two boys to tried. [listen to her calling them boys when they were probably older than she is.

and she bites her lip briefly. she knows she's likely one of those dead or dying in her world, but she can't bring herself to say it out loud yet] But what if they stayed here or went to another world?

Have you ever seen someone who's insane? Truly insane?

They wouldn't notice where they went.

[she thinks back to the White Triangle racists that the Legion was trying to hold off when Tinya was pulled here. there was no reasoning with them, no room for discussion. they were intent on their goal of destroying Earth with no mercy]

Yes, I have.

Even if they were given the chance to go somewhere else? Where they wouldn't be dead?

Maybe if they had some hope of being alive again. But then you have to believe that these so called gods actually have the power to do that.

And I don't believe that at all.

But who knows, maybe it'll work without driving people insane? I guess we'll see if someone tries it.

But I've been told that they can bring people back from the dead. Even those who were dead back home, they bring back to life here.

[she's not ready yet to admit that she was likely among them]

I don't want to stay here forever just to be alive. If they open the door and send everyone home, dead people will go back to being dead unless they choose to stay behind.

Though maybe some people would want to stay here. I don't know. I don't understand people anymore. I don't even understand myself most of the time.

...were you dead before you came here?

I thought I understood myself, but since coming here I'm not so sure. This place is so unlike home.

No, but I'm only a few hours away at the most. Maybe less.

[It all depends on when his organs finish shutting down.]

Even so, I don't want to stay here forever. There's nothing for me here, no purpose.

Oh. I'm sorry.

[that sounds like an awful way to die]

How long have you been here? Maybe you can find a purpose?

A few months now. There's things to do, but it all seems meaningless. Nothing here is long term. People come and go.

I dunno.

[It's hard for him to care too much about a place he doesn't want to be.]

What about you? What's happening for you back home?

They do. But some people have been here a really long time. Maybe you could stick to them?

[Tinya doesn't want to be here, either, but she's not sure she has a here to go back to]

I'm--when I came here, the Legion was in the middle of a battle to save Earth from being destroyed.

Yeah, I feel bad for them.

[ He assumes they all want to go home, and those that don't have just been here long enough to be conditioned into liking it. He knows all about that. ]

I thought you said it was some sort of paradise in your time? Are people mad that it's too nice?

So do I.

[she assumes that everyone else has a home to go back to. she's not sure that's the case for her, though]

There are a lot of different races living on Earth. Most of them came for jobs. Some people. . . don't like that.

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